Overturning the 2009 decision will lead to billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades. Overturning the 2009 decision will lead to billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.
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A ruling by the US Environmental Protection Agency opens the door to loosening limits on greenhouse gases emitted by vehicles.the ‘endangerment finding’, a cornerstone of the nation’s efforts to curb emissions of planet-heating greenhouse gases . Its reversal means that, for the first time in 17 years, the EPA will no longer consider greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare. EPA head Lee Zeldin said the move would save the United States money by removing excess regulations, but critics say it will endanger more lives as The landmark 2009 endangerment finding served as the legal underpinning for US regulations to limit emissions. For now, the EPA is capitalizing on the repeal to roll back emissions rules for cars, trucks and other vehicles, but might later apply it to other sectors, such as power production. By several estimates, ending vehicle regulations alone will add billions of tonnes ofFederal law requires the EPA to make decisions on the basis of the best-available science, but today’s action is “is a rejection of the most basic laws of physics”, says Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London and head of the World Weather Attribution project, which studies the links between extreme weather and human-caused climate change. “There is no legitimate scientific rationale” for the decision, says Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University in College Station. While announcing the decision on Thursday, Zeldin did not address the science of climate change, but focused on what he called “the single largest act of deregulation” in the country’s history. “The red tape has been cut,” he said.and the planet-heating emissions that cause it. Among other measures, the administration has withdrawn from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change and opened US public lands to oil exploration and coal mining. The endangerment finding “has nothing to do with public health,” said Trump, speaking with Zeldin at the White House announcement. “This was a rip-off of the country.” In earlier justifications for revoking the finding, the EPA cited a July report written by a panel of academics who are known for criticizing climate science and were appointed by US energy secretary Chris Wright.that the panel had been illegally assembled out of public view. The Department of Energy did not respond to questions from, released on Thursday, the EPA did not invoke the report to justify its change. That’s a significant shift in strategy and a sign that scientists’ push-back on the Wright-appointed panel worked, says Adam Orford, a legal scholar at Fordham University in New York City. Instead, the EPA is invoking legal arguments that the agency does not have the authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions.The endangerment finding allowed the EPA to implement a wide variety of pollution-control measures, such as strict fuel-efficiency standards for cars and emissions limits on power plants. Rollback of the endangerment finding hugely limits the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions, critics say. “This is the biggest attack ever on federal authority to tackle the climate crisis,” says Meredith Hankins, federal climate legal director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group in New York City.Access the most recent journalism from Nature's award-winning teamHigh-Level Talent at the Major Agricultural Microbiology Research Facility of HZAUHangzhou, ChinaGroup leader in Genome Biology The Centre for Integrative Biology of Toulouse launches its annual call for the recruitment of new group leaders focusing this year on Genome biology.Postdoctoral Position in Systems Neuroscience – Visual Cortex, In Vivo Imaging & Electrophysiology
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